Agrees to buy a company for 5. 5 billion. Right, half an hour from the start of the trading week. No trading in the u. S. , Martin Luther king jr. Day. In japan, machinery orders better than expected, the ppi,cer price index, factory gate inflation better than predicted by economists, but still in negative terrain for december. But see how the markets are tracking. David. David thanks. We are looking at a mixed bag. Markets just opening up, taiwan, malaysia. Have a look at singapore. One of the better performers performingthe best market in asia save for the philippines. Mixed. Ight times index,verything else canceling out japan pulling things down, australia, flipped the board, some other benchmarks at the moment. Australia, that comes down to the fact you are getting a decent bid when it comes to the mining stocks, japan, strong japanese yen weighing on that index. Assets. Ook across 1. 20, roughly at those levels. Dollaryen, still close to session lows, 114. At 2. 4 yields unchanged
Announced sweeping new indictments of 12 russian intelligence agents. They are accused of hacking more than 300 individuals associated with the Clinton Campaign. Dccc and dnc, beginning by at least march 2016. The president still plans to meet putin on monday despite calls from Senate Democrats and john mccain calling to cancel the helsinki summit. Ahead of the big meeting, trump is spending the day golfing at his resort in scotland. Where crowds of antitrump demonstrators are also spending the day. Want to bring in now aliza collins, capitol Hill Reporter for usa today and also kevin sar illy, chief washington correspondent for bloomberg and andrew desaid ario from the daily beast. Great to have this gang with me as we jump in. Kevin, i want to start with you. We knew from this indictment that the president knew about it, was briefed on it before this trip. But he said that when it comes to nato and theresa may, that would be easy. Vladimir putin may be the difficult part. How do you
Winners today. The group of people you are talking about, they will be one of the great winners. Go. Would you ever consider removing sanctions without significant improvement in the human rights situation . One significant improvement. I want to know that it wont be happening. Once you start that process there will be a point even if youre not finished, it cant happen scientifically or mechanically but you wont be able to go back. Once we reach that that i will give that serious thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go at w first. The cost of denuclearization and crippling sanctions. South korea and japan will help them very greatly. They are prepared to help them. I think they will help them. We wont have to help them. The United States has been paying an a lot of places but south korea which obviously is right next door and japan which is essentially nextdoor they will be helping them and doing a very generous job and a terrific job so they will be helping. I would like to follow up with reg
Will be holding their talks what if any progress has been made in denuclearizing north korea thats the big question and is there any substance in trumps bid to turn an enemy seen right there into a friend. But in the u. S. Capital its the explosive claims of a former trump friend turned photo that has captured most of the attention Michael Cohen transformer fixer and attorney telling congress the commander in chief is really a commander in chief. Hes a racist. He uses convience. And hes a cheat i fear that if you loses the election in two thousand and twenty that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. Im brooke goff its good to have you with us it is morning in hanoi vietnam and today both the u. S. President and the north Korean Leader are expected to tell us whether their talks have brought the world closer or further from the threat of Nuclear Conflict donald trump and kim jong un are now in the hotel in hanoi where they will be holding their talks today were looking at
Lower in the value of the chinese yuan. The chinese yuan x1 currency thatis yuan. The chinese yuan x1 currency that is actively managed by the government. It doesnt freely float like the pound of the japanese yen or the euro for example. They were saying that china now has got to a point where it is continuing to wea ken point where it is continuing to weaken its currency on the basis that that will help its exports. In the grand scheme of things now, the fa ct the grand scheme of things now, the fact that the us is now saying that china is no longer a currency manipulator. Maybe because theyve just agreed to what the us has asked them to on agricultural purchases or purchases of aeroplanes in the future as a result of this phase i trade deal, it begs the question, just how, just how sacrosanct are these technical. Of whether they will be seen as legitimate Going Forward whether it is just a tool of the Trump Administration to get to their end goals. What do you think . It used to be,